Vancouver SunAn investigation has determined that trouble with the flow of fuel into the engine of a small plane likely forced the pilot to land on Highway 97 near Osoyoos last year.
The privately operated Beechcraft A36 took off on July 7, 2015, from the Oliver airport for Boundary Bay airport in Delta, but lost power just six minutes later.
The pilot was the only person on board and had to land on the highway, where his plane hit a truck, then a power pole and burst into flames.READ MORE

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COPAThe COPA Membership Satisfaction Survey is in full swing, 1,000 COPA members were selected in stratified sampling across Canada by KC Surveys.

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Edmonton SunIt was after the Second World War that Rosella Bjornson's father dragged an Avro Anson Mk II dual-engine aircraft home to their southern Alberta farm.
That was the beginning of Bjornson's fascination with flying that would eventually lead her to become the first female airline pilot in Canada.
"This was my playhouse," she said of the bomber. "Can you imagine that little girl crawling all over that airplane?"READ MORE

Hants JournalAs a little boy, Paul Dent knew he would be soaring high in the sky someday.
At just five years old, he became smitten with airplanes after watching a Trans Canada Airlines DC8 take off down the runway.
"I said 'I'm going to do that.' I never looked back," said Dent.
Even a Grade 2 school photo showed Dent holding onto a small toy airplane.
"I built a lot of model airplanes and I drew them too," said Dent. "I was just insane about airplanes."READ MORE

AVwebThe Canadian Navy is sending a ship to a remote area of the British Columbia coast to see if an object found by a diver is part of an unarmed atomic bomb jettisoned by a crashing B-36 in 1950. Sean Smyrichinsky told the Vancouver Sun he found a strange-looking piece of metal on the ocean floor off Boyle Point on Pitt Island, about 500 miles north of Vancouver, while diving for sea cucumbers. "I found this big thing underwater, huge, never seen anything like it before," Smyrichinsky said.READ MORE

Bow Valley Crag & Canyon Sitting in his in his living room the day before the 2016 U.S. election, Second World War veteran and Banff resident Ben Scaman conveys anxiety related to the current political landscape down south and how Canada will respond to the results of the ballot.
"I'm afraid with the election coming up in the States, we might be in a war within a year," he says earnestly, sipping a cup of coffee. "I worry very much about this election tomorrow, because I certainly don’t think we should be involved in another war."READ MORE

General Aviation NewsFrequent photo contributor Mike Kincaid sent in this photo with a brief note: "With the final inspection for a seven-unit hangar complex at the Coeur d' Alene, Idaho airport approved, new hangar owners were given the green light to move their planes in. The first was this beautiful, although a bit dusty from years of storage, Bucker Jungmann."READ MORE

FLYING MagazineAircraft recovery parachute maker BRS says more than 300 lives have been saved after pilots deployed the company's system, one that gently returns an aircraft in distress back to earth. Cirrus reports more than 60 BRS deployments, many on the 3,600-pound SR22. Cirrus is also bringing a BRS parachute to the 6,000-pound SF50 Vision Jet.READ MORE

AVwebGE has test run a developmental version of its Advanced Turboprop (ATP) engine that contains 35 percent 3D printed parts. The ATP will be used in Cessna's new Denali single and is a big part of the sales pitch for the aircraft. GE says 3D printing saves weight and is more precise than traditional construction methods. "With subtractive manufactured parts and assemblies, you traditionally use bolts, welds or other interfaces to attach the parts together, which adds weight to the engine," Gordon Follin, who runs GE's 3D printing department, told New Atlas.READ MORE

General Aviation NewsIf you looked a little deeper into a couple of the displays at the DeLand Sport Aviation Showcase at the Deland Municipal Airport in Florida, you might have been pleased to notice the number of young people that were there.
There were many light sport and ultralight sport aircraft on display. There were informative forums and workshops related to sport aviation, a large covered display tent with the latest in avionics for your new homebuilt, and a chance to visit the manufacturer's displays on the tarmac.READ MORE